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Spider-Man SpiderVerse Art Book

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The LLM Engineering Handbook

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

These Strange New Minds

Algorithms

Raising AI

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

The Coming Wave

Elements of Design

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Artificial Intelligence: 10 Things You Should Know

Co-Intelligence

Mastering AI

The Last Human Job

You Are Not Expected to Understand This

The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI

Generative Artificial Intelligence

The Design of Everyday Things

Nexus

March

SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (5th Edition)

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Robots Are Coming!

The Singularity Is Nearer

Empire of AI

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

Meditations

Infrastructure as Code

Steve Jobs

The Modern Trauma Toolkit

The Joy of x

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Black Holes & Time Warps

Consciousness Explained

The Gift of Fear

Mastering Production-Grade LLMs

Practical MLOps

The New New Thing

Building Applications with AI Agents

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Dune

The Practice of Cloud System Administration

Beyond Vibe Coding

Starting Point: 1979–1996

AI Snake Oil

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment

Turning Point: 1997–2008

Something Deeply Hidden

A Brief History of Intelligence

Fundamentals of Software Architecture (2nd Edition)

Practical Cloud Security

Athens

Burn Book

A Pattern Language

Software Requirements Essentials

The Twenty Days of Turin

Platform Engineering

Who Is Government?

Extremely Hardcore

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition

The Odyssey

Hidden Figures

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

AI for Everyday IT

Policy as Code

Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (2nd Edition)

Uncommon Ground

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

Cost-Effective Data Pipelines

The Braindead Megaphone

Hands-On Large Language Models

Critical Thinking

Unifying Business, Data, and Code

The Alignment Problem

The Neural Mind

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

The Staff Engineer's Path

Designing Large Language Model Applications

The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer

AI Engineering

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Prompt Engineering for LLMs

Prompt Engineering for Generative AI

Enshittification

Site Reliability Engineering

Visual Thinking

Imperfect Oracle

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Superintelligence

AI Value Creators

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Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less

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THE ELEMENTARY THEORY OF THE 2-CATEGORY OF SMALL CATEGORIES

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Foundations of Large Language Models

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The Count of

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms

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The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning!!!

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